Mobidictum
Mobidictum is a games industry network and media outlet connecting developers, publishers, investors and professionals across Türkiye, Europe, MENA and Asia. It publishes articles on regional games markets, such as Africa and Bulgaria.
Documents
Gaming Snapshot: Türkiye
The page is a single chart page titled 'Gaming Snapshot: Türkiye'. It covers gaming startups, investors, incubators, accelerators, deals, exits, secondary transactions, clusters and unicorns.
- The top gaming deals panel, covering the last 12 months, lists a deal labelled grand at $70M.
- A deal labelled flow at $49M appears in the same top gaming deals panel.
- A deal labelled circle at $25M appears in the top deals panel, and the page also names Tencent.
This Week in Turkish Games: 17–31 May 2026
Page 2 presents Infinite Space: Mining by solo developer Taner Saydam, Animaly Bar: NO HUMANlTY! by Domnaier, Flight Date by Chirp Chirp Games, a team of 3, and GemPals by solo developer Emre Yildirim.
- The Meter is Running is a management game from Debt Driven Games, a two-person team from Türkiye, with a release date of 22nd May 2026.
- In The Meter is Running, players have 15 days to pay off an inherited debt or lose everything.
- Statecraft: Corrupted Democracy, developed and published by Engincan Ciçek, is listed for release on 26th May 2026 as a political sim and grand strategy game.
This Week in Turkish Games: May 8-16, 2026
This newsletter, "This Week in Turkish Games: May 8-16, 2026", covers Turkish and Turkey-linked game news for that week, including a panel hosted by Bahçeşehir University's BUG Zone club on May 15, a list of 28 indie teams showcased at BUG Zone's Zone Talks 3.0 event for more than 1000 attendees, and short profiles of several…
- Liar's Bar has nearly sold 10 million copies, according to Curve Animation co-founder Selçuk Yağcı at a BUG Zone panel.
- Avoiding Steam Next Fest gave the Liar's Bar team an open window for visibility without competing against hundreds of other demos at the same time.
- Paying creators simply to play the game did not produce effective content; instead, the team emphasized the importance of finding creators who genuinely enjoy the game.
This Week in Turkish Games: May 1-8, 2026
This document covers Turkish game industry news for the week of May 1-8, 2026.
- Vending Machine Co. sold 25,000 copies in a week, making it Rogue Duck Interactive's biggest game to date.
- The game's budget was 10,000 TL (approximately $220K), with about 15% spent on marketing and the remaining 85% on production.
- Türkiye became the game's third best-selling country with aggressive price reduction and heavy marketing.
Coin Chef: Case Study
Coin Chef: Case Study, published March 2026 as a joint Aghanim and Fortune Mine Games document, describes how Fortune Mine Games, a Turkey-based mobile studio behind the game Coin Chef, moved its direct-to-consumer (DTC) channel to Aghanim's game hub and checkout product.
- Coin Chef's web revenue share rose to 40% globally from 18%, according to the document.
- The document reports a 60% web revenue share on US iOS.
- Before the change, fees on first-party platforms could reach up to 30%, and web revenue had plateaued at about 18%.
Bulgaria's Gaming Industry in 2025 and Beyond
This interview with Genoveva Christova-Murray, co-founder of CreaTech Bulgaria and MISSIA23, outlines the strategic importance and future trajectory of Bulgaria's gaming industry, with a focus on regional and European collaboration.
- Genoveva Christova-Murray, co-founder of CreaTech Bulgaria and MISSIA23, is a key figure in strengthening Bulgaria's gaming and cultural sectors by uniting SMEs to scale, innovate, and access international markets.
- CreaTech Bulgaria, the country's first national creative industries cluster, actively includes game studios to foster interdisciplinary collaboration, shared infrastructure, joint funding, and increased visibility across Europe.
- The Black Sea Game Summit, held on June 27-28, successfully engaged the municipality of Burgas by presenting the event as a strategic investment in the region's future, positioning the city as a tech-forward destination.
2025 Africa Games Industry Report Reveals Consistent Growth in the Region
The "2025 Africa Games Industry Report," produced by Maliyo Games, provides an in-depth analysis of the African games ecosystem, highlighting its consistent growth and evolving landscape across mobile, console, and PC platforms.
- The 2025 Africa Games Industry Report, in its second edition, highlights consistent growth in Africa's games ecosystem, providing data and narratives on emerging studios and the evolving development landscape for mobile, console, and PC games.
- The Middle East & Africa region shows robust expansion in the global games industry, with a significant growth rate of +8.9% year-over-year, surpassing North America's modest +0.6% growth.
- Maliyo Games, a pan-African games development studio headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria, is responsible for producing the Africa Games Industry Report, with its founder and CEO, Hugo Obi, sharing the 2025 edition.
Monthly Games Industry Report: January 2024
The Monthly Games Industry Report for January 2024 is a roundup of game industry news organized into sections on games and apps, acquisitions, mergers and investments, market research, articles and interviews, and collaborations.
- Second Dinner, the developer behind Marvel Snap, acquired a $100 million Series B investment led by Griffin Gaming Partners.
- The report states that RPG and strategy games are remarkably good at maintaining mobile game loyalty, which it describes as challenging to obtain and maintain.
- Citing the SuperScale white paper, the report states that 83% of mobile games die within 3 years and 43% are killed in development.
Mobidictum Video Game News: February 2024
The February 2024 issue of Mobidictum Video Game News is numbered #4. The 2024 events calendar lists Mobidictum events in Lisbon, Berlin, Tallinn, Barcelona and Dubai, including a conference.
- The membership dinners calendar lists five dinners: Barcelona on February 6, Istanbul on March 5, Istanbul on June 12, Tallinn on June 13, and Istanbul on December 7.
- The 2024 events calendar lists Mobidictum events in Lisbon, Berlin, Tallinn, Barcelona and Dubai.
- The introductory note states that this issue adds a selection of the best Steam Deck games of 2023 to its coverage.
Monthly Games Industry Report: September 2023
The September 2023 Monthly Games Industry Report, which features Mobidictum interviews, compiles game-industry news, market research, articles and interviews.
- The document says Unity's new pricing changes have set the industry in an uproar, and its table lists per-install runtime fees above install thresholds.
- Fancensus measured Starfield's total PR coverage across a window running from 14 days before launch to 4 days after launch.
- Proof of Play raised $33 million to develop fully onchain games for autonomous worlds.
Video Game News: July 2023
This monthly video game news report from July 2023 collects short items on titles and events across the games industry.
- Snoop Dogg and Nicki Minaj are joining Call of Duty Modern Warfare II with the new season of Warzone, with Snoop Dogg associated with the franchise since 2014.
- According to Ben Cureton, Principal Designer at Gunfire Games, no one has completed Remnant 2 at 100%, including players with over 400 hours and the developers.
- Call of Duty: Mobile's sixth season, "Templar's Oath," was released on July 5th.
Monthly Games Industry Report: July 2023
The document is the July 2023 edition of a monthly games industry report, compiled by Mobidictum and covering game and app launches, investments, market research, and articles and interviews across the games sector.
- Technavio projects the gaming GPU market to reach USD 30.59 billion from 2022 to 2027, driven by demand for PC games and gaming consoles.
- Verified Market Research projects the Global Metaverse Market to grow at a CAGR of 39.1% from 2022 to 2030, reaching 824.53 billion by the end of the forecast period.
- Newzoo and Carry1st data show mobile gaming generated $778.6 million in revenue in 2022.
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